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At
the age of seven Enrico Euron begins studing music with the aged
organist in the church of his birth place. At thirteen he is aedmitted
at Torino's Conservatory, Giuseppe Verdi.
He
graduates in Organ and Organistic Composition with M° Guido
Donati and he obtains the "Compimento inferiore in Composizione
Principale". He specializes in medieval music and at a
stage in Forlimpopoli he meets and he studies with Marco Ambrosini
of the Clemencic Consort. In the meantime he studies violin
and Orchestra Direction with a privately.
He
starts the concertistic career as an organist. His first compositions
are played and they earn full consent ("Divertimento per pianoforte
e orchestra",1986; "Fanfara per un deportato",1988).
He becomes vicedirector and clavicembalist of the orchestra "Il
Ruscello" of Torino
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He
directs Torino's orchestra "Harmonia Mundi for three years.
He obtains the Organ's chair at Collegno's Musical Assosiation,
to which Orchestrals Exercitations is added short after. He startscollaborating
with medieval music groups.
He
begins the studies of Etnomusicology at the litterary faculty at
the university of Torino. His historical interests brings him to
the Irish and Breton's musical tradition.
He
starts visiting Bretagne:where he studies celtic harp with Myrdhin;
he also partecipates at the "Trophee International Carolan",
where he is the third classified, and at the "Trophee International
Aiwan", where he obtains the public jury prize with his composition
"Ered Lomin" after included in the CD, Aisling.
Maintaining
contacts with Bretagne he travels to Ireland, where he studies traditional
celtic harp tecniques with Emer Mc Laverty and Mìcheal Rooney,
members of the "Belfast Harp orchestra". In the following
years, he starts the celtic harp concertistic career, which brings
him to play in Italy, France, Ireland and Germany.
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He
continues the studies in Scotland, with Savourna Stevenson, and
in Italy he obtains the celtic harp chair at Collegno's Musical
Assosiation. His historical and musicological studies brings him
to collaborate with the University , in particular with professor
Melita Cataldi, who is the teacher of Irish Litterature History
in the Torino's university.
He is second at the "O'Carolan Harp Competition", the
main competition of celtic harp in Ireland.
He
publishes "Metodo per Arpa Celtica" in two volumes, with
Arpitalia (CO). His method is stil today the only available in Italian.
He is more often occupated in conferences and seminaries on Irish
music history and on traditional celtic harp tecniques. He starts
the group Tuatha De Danann with the intentof rebuilding and playing
the acient Irish repertory, following a historical approach. The
concerts with the group collect immediately an enourmus public success,
also because of the members' habit to tell the audience the peculiarities
and the origin of the played music. The group Tuatha De Danann records
its first CD, Aisling (1995).
Leaving
the accademic concertism for the main part, with the Tuatha De
Danann, he exibits all over Italy. He holds conferences on history
of music in Ireland and on celtic harp tecniques. The second CD
Awen (1997) is released. The Tuatha De Danann win the first prize
at the competition "I Big di Torinosette".
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He
publishes the collection "Irish Harpers in the XVII and XVIII
century", which contains a large historic part, beyond the
reconstruction of inedit music passages. The third CD, Duana (1999)
is released; it recalls some aspects of the "Belfast Harp Festival"
in 1792. The concerts of the group are now over 300 only in Italy.
His
book "L'arpa dei Celti - Storia dell'Arpa e degli Arpisti
in Irlanda" is published by the publishing house Trauben
of Torino; it is a monografic treatise on the celtic harp. He
organizes Feasta, international festival on Celtic Harp, with
the help of some members of the Tuatha De Danann; thousands of
people from all the Northern part of Italy partecipate at the
first edition.
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holds seminaries in different conservatories on the traditional celtic
harp tecnique. These courses are mainly addressed to teachers and
to Dip. holders, but they soon become a privileged meeting point for
all lovers of Irish Harp. |
He
is invited at the most important Italian and European events:
from Torino's Folk Club to Palazzo Te in Mantova, from Rencontres
Internationales d'Harpe Celtique in Bretagne to The Celtic Festival
in Courmayeur and Triskell, Trieste's celtic festival.
Together with Marco Picca he founds the new duet celtic harp-guitar,
which opens new horizons for Irish music in Italy.
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2002 he starts the first experimental development course for celtic
harp at Castelfreanco Veneto's conservatory, which is the first Italian
conservatory that has created a course for Celtic Harp. He is also
invited to direct the international course for high development for
celtic harp at the Accademia Musicale Romana. |
He
plays with the most importat Italian and foreign musicians, as Vincenzo
Zitello, Mirdhin, Grainne Hambly, Stefano Corsi. He is invited as
guest harper in the Italian Tour 2003 of the Irish group THE CHIEFTAINS.
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